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Here is a short, sleek novel of encounters, set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically different from her own.

Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She's a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs. Well that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland. Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building.

Even four years after the sudden death of his wife, best selling novelist Mike Noonan can't stop grieving, nor can he return to his writing. He moves into his isolated house by the lake, which becomes the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here - and what do they want of Mike Noonan?

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is not just a book—it's an invitation to dive into the savage heart of nature, where survival isn't a choice, but a law. "The wilderness has rules, and it’s wise to learn them if you want to survive."In this electrifying tale, you'll meet Buck, a domesticated dog whose quiet life in sunny California is shattered when he’s stolen from the comforts of home and thrust into the icy, brutal wilderness of the Klondike during the Gold Rush. What happens next will leave you breathless. This is no ordinary adventure.

Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training—she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she's also a powerful witch. Serena, Jamie's mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.

À l'hopital, Yan se trompe d'époque, de lieu, voit des choses qui n'existent pas. Dans ses propos décousus auxquels personne ne prête attention, un détail interpelle Gaëlle : un signe, que la vieille femme affirme avoir reçu après 55 ans, 6 mois et 17 jours d'attente. De quoi parle-t-elle ? D'où vient ce décompte si précis ? Gaëlle tente de résoudre le mystère.

Sur une colline de la ville côtière de Marigold, une mystérieuse laverie est apparue comme par magie dans l’obscurité de la nuit. Jieun, l’énigmatique propriétaire, a imaginé un endroit où l’on peut entrer sans crainte, un lieu où l’on soigne les âmes comme on prend soin des vêtements. Car Jieun ne s’occupe pas uniquement des tissus, elle propose à ses clients de nettoyer leur coeur en effaçant leurs souvenirs les plus douloureux. Et si certaines âmes n’ont besoin que de quelques coups de fer à repasser pour se défroisser, d’autres doivent être raccommodées de part en part.

Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: the white-hot true crime book of the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons standing upright in his closet? Why do people want to run him over in the street? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? As a severe storm cell heads towards Brisbane, Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets.

We make monsters in order to destroy them. For thousands of years, we’ve named witches and burned them, suspected demons and exorcised them. When crops die and children fall ill, who better to blame than a monster? In nineteenth-century Bulgaria, Yana rides from one desolate town to the next, staging grisly displays while the villagers sleep: animal corpses in the public square, eggs filled with blood in the chicken coop. She tells the stricken villagers stories of vampires that stalk the night. Then Yana eliminates the threat, and leaves seeds of hope in her wake.

Prince Aurelius of the Seelie realm has always been the hero, so it's no real surprise to him when a final act of heroism lands him in fae hell with one final task: give Caly's sister, Ana, the rest of her powers and take her to the Fates in Moirai. It is, however, a surprise to learn that Ana isn't the eight-year-old child who died in that car with Caly so many years ago. Instead, she is a full-grown, beautiful woman―with plans to take over the Underworld as soon as she can get the pendant holding her powers from Eli.

Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost.

Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighbourhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighbourhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time.

So unbeschwert wie ein Sommertag, so ernst wie das Leben manchmal sein kann Früher haben sie fast jedes Wochenende im alten Ferienhaus der Familie verbracht, heute treffen sie sich dort nur noch zu besonderen Anlässen: Cecilia, Jonas und Marika Ritter wohnen in alle Winde verstreut, leben ihre eigenen Leben, versuchen, ihre eigenen Krisen zu bewältigen. Als die Eltern sich trennen, das Haus verkaufen wollen und damit ihr sicherer Hafen wegzubrechen droht, wollen sie ein paar letzte Wochenenden gemeinsam dort verbringen.

Das zweite Hörbuch der Hamburger Literaturpreisträgerin, die mit Die Ewigkeit ist ein guter Ort Presse, Buchhändler:innen und Publikum erobert hat: die Geschichte zweier Frauen, die darum kämpfen, ihrem Leben einen eigenen Rhythmus zu geben. Wenn Janis das Licht ausmacht und »Gute Nacht« flüstert, ist die Kamera schon an. Als Nachtwache im Schlaflabor bringt sie Fremde ins Bett und schaut ihnen beim Schlafen zu. Der Tag-Nacht-Rhythmus, der anderen Menschen eine natürliche Struktur gibt, gilt für sie nicht. Janis hat keine Familie, lebt allein.

ODIN is a love story that chronicles the relationship between Katherine, a successful although self-centered executive, and the puppy she literally snatched from death’s icy grip. After being rescued by her in dramatic fashion, Odin comes to see her safety and well-being as the central purpose of his existence. Although the line between the savior and the saved may become blurred at times, their unconditional love and affection for one another remain clear and unimpeachable, even in the face of certain death.

Peace and quiet. That's all I'm looking for after two grueling tours in the Army. Pete swears I'll find it if I join him on a trip to Spruce, Texas to reunite with his old military pal Cody.

A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. His father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A rebel without a cause, he knew how to fail with heroic self-deprecation. The garden he created out of a barren village yard first saved him, then killed him It remains his living legacy: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.

Een liefdevol en beeldend geschreven verhaal met veel aandacht voor de Koreaanse cultuur, voor de luisteraars van de bestsellers Als katten van de wereld verdwijnen en Morisaki's boekwinkel Dit verhaal speelt zich af in een brievenwinkel in een hippe wijk in Seoul die echt bestaat en een penvriendendienst heeft; de auteur mocht de anoniem geschreven brieven inzien en gebruiken voor dit boek Hyoyeongs droom om regisseur te worden is uiteengespat: haar oudere zus heeft de familie plotsklaps verlaten en zonder haar steun ontbreekt het Hyoyeong aan zelfvertrouwen om haar filmproject af te ronden.

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan. Unicorn skulls and voracious librarians. John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami’s international following.

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.